Sources: The Straits Times
Japan reports an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain at a farm with about 11,000 egg-laying chickens in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture. 2021-11-16
South Korea announces it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Japanese government export controls. 2019-09-11
Severe flooding on the Japanese island of Kyushu has caused seven deaths with twenty people unaccounted for. 2017-07-7
A tour bus carrying skiers runs off the road in Japan's Nagano Prefecture with at least 14 people dead and injuring another 27. 2016-01-15
An earthquake estimated at a magnitude of 6.0 hits Kobe, Japan, injuring at least 22 people. 2013-04-13
Japan and North Korea hold their first talks in four years in Beijing. 2012-08-29
Japan lodges a formal protest with China after the presence of the latter's patrol boats near the disputed Senkaku Islands. 2012-07-11
About 700 anti-nuclear activists hold a die-in on the border of France and Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and after the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan. 2011-04-25
The United States authorises the first evacuation of Americans from Japan. 2011-03-17
The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visits Kunashiri, one of the southern Kuril Islands that are the subject of the Kuril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan. 2010-11-1